Comic 561 - Tangled Up In Blue, Page 23

Author Notes:

Yeah, y'notice how in the last page the headless body in the dugout was an umpire? Yeah, when Decay Conductor "beaned" him, she probably did whatever she did to that bottle in the process. Took off the whole head.

So yeah, last chapter two separate readers asked if Qrime Qure's look was based off Greed from Fullmetal Alchemist. I was really caught offguard since I didn't see it (when I think of Greed's monster form I think of those huge tusks), plus don't get how it could be seen as anything other than a parody of the Venom-Symbiote. This time, however... yeah, Decay Conductor's powers owe a LOT of inspiration from FMA. Oddly enough not where we got the idea for her personality, though....

I dunno if it comes across but explosions are pretty irritating things for me and Martin to handle. One of those things that looks absolutely terrible in the lineart until you get them back in color, but they're a pain for Martin to color too.

Gah, Private Gardner is supposed to be running in in that second panel, showing he had to follow behind Marvelous Man flying in. Kinda framed the shot too poorly to show that off. Speaking of the second panel, one particular fan was asking why Marvelous Man kept choking people, that's honestly the reason. It's a Boring But Practical way to subdue people.

And this pretty quickly goes to show just how she did as much damage as she did, so there is that. Really like the way a lot of the Decay Conductor stuff has come out, and a lot of what we have planned, but of course it'll be awhile before we get into all that.

Really not sure what I've got to say offhand unfortunately, but do like how this one came out and I'm hoping everyone enjoys.